Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a passenger flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that was shot down by the Donetsk People's Republic over Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on 17 July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. The Russian Army had sent a Buk missile system to the DPR separatist militia on the day of the shootdown, and the DPR shot down the plane with the missile system before returning it to Russia. The Russian government denied that it had been involved with the shootdown, accusing the Ukrainian government of shooting it down.